Stefan Zweig

“He is only a philosopher in the manner of Socrates, whom he revered above all others because he left behind no dogma,…

— Stefan Zweig

On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it.

— Stefan Zweig

“Od onog ondašnjeg čovjeka ja sam se, i to upravo zbog onog doživljaja, potpuno odvojio, promatram ga sa strane, sasvim mirno i…

— Stefan Zweig

“What Montaigne seeks is his interior self, that which cannot submit to state, to family, to time, to circumstances, to money, to…

— Stefan Zweig

Every epoch which seeks renewal first projects its ideal into a human form. In order to comprehend its own essence tangibly, the…

— Stefan Zweig

“To know by heart is not to know, it is to keep what they have given you and store it in your…

— Stefan Zweig

“Acı çekmek için bile yetersizdim.”

— Stefan Zweig

“It is true: Montaigne achieved little else in his life aside from posing the question: “How should I live?”

— Stefan Zweig

Only the rare expands our minds, only as we shudder in the face of a new force do our feelings increase. Therefore…

— Stefan Zweig

Even from the abyss of horror in which we try to feel our way today, half-blind, our hearts distraught and shattered, I…

— Stefan Zweig

The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths.

— Stefan Zweig

But, in history, practical usefulness never determines the moral value of an achievement. Only the person who increases the knowledge humanity has…

— Stefan Zweig

But the creative person is subject to a different, higher law than mere national law. Whoever has to create a work, whoever…

— Stefan Zweig

All the pale horses of the apocalypse have stormed through my life, revolution, starvation, devaluation of currency and terror, epidemics, emigration; I…

— Stefan Zweig

Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final…

— Stefan Zweig

“happiness would prevail where trees were planted.”

— Stefan Zweig

“For you cannot know the world by just navel-gazing. This is why he reads history and studies philosophy: not to draw lessons…

— Stefan Zweig

In 1938, after Austria, our universe had become accustomed to inhumanity, to lawlessness, and brutality as never in centuries before. In a…

— Stefan Zweig

“It is generally accepted that getting rich is the only and typical goal of the Jew. Nothing could be further from the…

— Stefan Zweig

The transformation of the impossible into reality is always the mark of a demonic will. The only way to recognize a military…

— Stefan Zweig

“Forget it all, I told myself, escape into your mind and your work, into the place where you are only your living,…

— Stefan Zweig

“An intellect that does not have a fixed target is as good as lost. Whoever wants to be everywhere is nowhere. No…

— Stefan Zweig

In their overestimation of the role of civilization, the humanists misunderstand the primary forces of the world of primitive human drives with…

— Stefan Zweig

“The writer in him is only the shadow of the man, though so often we observe men whose art of writing is…

— Stefan Zweig

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do…

— Stefan Zweig